Ninety Quotes

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.

The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.